Less than four weeks into his new role as the Federal Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic MP has prioritised a visit to the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC).
The visit is the latest in a series of engagements had with the Minister and his team both pre and post-election and the latest opportunity to discuss a proposal for the development of a National Battery Strategy.
In a pre-budget submission – Towards 2030 Australia’s Battery Powered Future – which made a number of recommendations about how to build a thriving domestic battery industry – and a National Battery Strategy was identified as central to that ambition.
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